Council Opts Not to Close Churchill at the Tracks

Council opts not to close Churchill at the tracks

BY EMILY MIBACHDaily Post Managing Editor  Palo Alto City Council tonight (May 11) unanimously decided not to close the Churchill Road rail crossing to cars after students and parents asked for the closure due to recent suicides on the tracks.  Instead, council agreed to keep funding guards at the rail crossings, as deaths have not occurred at the tracks since they have been hired, and to expedite plans for a quiet zone – where trains will not b…

Palo Alto veers away from closing Churchill train crossing

After months of intense community debate, Palo Alto leaders on Monday abandoned a plan to temporarily close the Churchill Avenue rail crossing where two teenagers recently died by suicide.